>
>A minute ago I have been told by Julian Elischer that I should
>ln -s /dev/null /dev/socksys (-:
>(provided I had the newer socksys stuff which I sure have).
>And yes, I tried it and the open socksys failure message is gone .

Great! This did help!

But now I am getting

itu# /cdrom/install.wp
     Using /tmp/WpTmP
     Please Wait
abort
abort
Error: Can't open display: zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi:0.0
     Unable to execute /tmp/WpTmP/ifiles/cdinst.SCO_S
     Warning: Unable to execute the GUI installation.  Your
     DISPLAY environment variable may be wrong.
/cdrom/install.wp: cannot create /tmp/WpTmP/ifiles/platform.def: read-only file
system
cat: /tmp/WpTmP/ifiles/platform.def: No such file or directory
     Starting the character-based CD installation.
cd: can't cd to /tmp/WpTmP/Wp60//install
/tmp/WpTmP/ifiles/cdinst.chr: ./install.wp: not found

xterm and netscape do not complain about DISPLAY environment variable.

Seppo

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